Records and photographs for Around the Region should be sent as soon as possible after the event to Around the Region, OSME, c/o The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 2DL, U.K.   

Recent reports include two winter records of White Stork Ciconia ciconia (only occasionally recorded at this season), a late central Anatolian report of Quail Coturnix coturnix (at Seyfe Gölü on 26 November), a June record of Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax from Bulanık, three Sociable Plovers Chettusia gregaria at Kayseri on 12 October, ten Bar-tailed Godwits Limosa lapponica at Gediz Delta on 20 December, and the third Blyth’s Reed Warbler Acrocepahlus dumetorum in the country, at Akyatan Gölü on 24 September.

The following assisted in the compilation of this review: Alexander Abuladze, Mohammad Al-Shamlih, Marc Almécija, Vasil Ananian, Ian Andrews, Sherif & Mindy Baha El Din, Thierry Bara, Jamie Buchan, Tom Coles, Judy Dawes, Barbaros Demirci, Hugues Dufourny, Marc Duquet, Peter Flint, Benoît Gauquie, George Gregory, Andrew Grieve, Richard Hoath, Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh, Fares Khoury, Graham Lobley, Mark Moore, Hilary Nash, Yoav Perlman, Ian Philip, Ghassan & Mona Ramadan-Jaradi, Colin Richardson (on behalf of the Emirates Bird Records Committee), James P. Smith, Guilhem Tightens, Andreas & Maria Wenger, David Whaley and Sadegh Sadeghi Zadegan. Records were also taken from the BirdLife Cyprus Newsletter and North Cyprus Birds website.